Day 5 - Finding new gadgets

Anthony:

Here's how a typical polyphasic Thomas vs. Anthony sleep goes. On the top is Thomas "brainwave" sleep champion with a sleep pattern that goes through all the sleep cycles, which is supposed to be good. On the bottom is Anthony "brainwave-less" sleep loser who went straight to deep sleep and woke up an hour later, way before the scheduled 6 am waking time. This is an indication that the brainwaves that Thomas uses during his sleep is actually helping him adapt to the Everyman sleep schedule. I, on the other hand, fell asleep for an additional 30 mins after I woke up at 6 am. Despite feeling very sleepy when I wake up, at this stage, I don't feel as crappy when I wake up, just sleepy. My body is slowly adjusting to this sleep schedule, albeit at a slower rate than Mr. Thomas. It is also noteworthy that I set my alarm clock wrongly when I took my 10:30 pm nap last night and overslept （I did 1 hour instead of 20 mins). Consequently, that might've affected my sleep patterns during my core sleep. This marks our progress on Day 5.

I don't know if I have mentioned this in the previous posts but the first nap that I take around 11 am / 12 pm is always the best one. I feel immediately energized after that nap and that is the most productive time of the day (not that the other hours are unproductive).

Thomas:

Again, my alarm did not go off today. What is wrong here?? In the afternoon I found out, that it would be a good idea to set the alarm time to 6.00 am instead of 6.00 pm. I will try again tomorrow. ;-) Nevertheless, I got up at 6.13 am after already being awake for one hour. I realized, that I was awake before 6 am since I could hear the brainwaves, but I did not know it was that long. I tried to fall asleep again, but did not succeed. My body seemed to have gotten enough sleep.

My sleep graph shows, that during the short night of 2 hours, I passed through all different sleep stages and apparently, my body gets all the sleep types it needs. When I woke up, I did not feel tired again and had a great start into the day.

I had a lecture from 10 am to 11 am and felt slightly tired during this time, but it was only a short period. My first nap was scheduled for 1 pm due to a meeting at noon and I had no problems to stay awake.

In the afternoon I found another gadget for my sleep:

• http://www.wakemate.com/

It pretty much does the same like the Sleep Cycle app, but uses scientifically proven methods to determine the sleep phases and - most importantly - a wrist band to determine your movements, which is way more accurate than just the movements of your iPhone on the mattress. It has some more interesting features to determine what influences your sleep in a positive or a negative way and judges your sleep quality. Unfortunately, they are out of stock at the moment, so I pre-ordered one. Maybe we can compare the Sleep Cycle app and the WakeMate very soon.

I feel like really getting used to my new sleep schedule...